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"You're going to put Miss Holladay on the stand, I suppose " "And expose her to all this?" and our junior looked around the room. "Not if I can help it!" "I don't see how you can help it. An alibi's the only thing that can save her from being bound over." "We'll cross that bridge when we come to it," retorted Mr. Royce. "I think the case against her will soon die of inanition."
Holladay preached to the assembled Seminaries, while the ladies of the mission met separately for prayer; then united intercession again closed the day. And they needed to wait on God, for many difficulties combined to prevent success. One was the poverty of the people. To say merely that they were poor gives no true idea of their situation to an American reader.
"But you have said it was not murder, madame," I said to the younger woman. "Nor was it!" she cried. "Let me tell you, monsieur. I reached the great building, which my husband had already pointed out to me; I went up in the lift; I entered the office, but saw no one. I went on through an open door and saw an old man sitting at a desk. I inquired if Mr. Holladay was there.
"To think that a girl as level-headed as Frances Holladay has always been, should suddenly develop such whimsicalities. Yet, I couldn't but admire her grasp of things. Here have I been thinking she didn't know anything about her business and didn't care, but she seems to have kept her eyes open." "Well?" asked Mr. Royce, as the other paused.
They seemed just made for each other, sir," and the trite old saying gathered a new dignity as he uttered it. I paused a moment to consider. This, certainly, seemed to discredit the theory that Holladay had ever had a liaison with any other woman, and yet what other theory was tenable? "There was nothing to mar their happiness that you know of?
It was not a large book, for the births at Etretat are not overwhelming in number. "The name, I think you said, was Holladay?" he asked. "Hiram W. Holladay," nodded Mr. Royce. "And the date June 10th?" "Yes June 10th." The little man ran his finger rapidly down the page, then went back again and read the entries one by one more slowly, with a pucker of perplexity about his lips.
Please understand that I set this down in no spirit of criticism. I had known Godfrey rather intimately ever since the days when we were thrown together in solving the Holladay case, and I admired sincerely his ready wit, his quick insight, and his unshakable aplomb.
I suppose if you were going to commit a capital crime, you would merely put on a high hat, because you never wear one! I'll tell you this much: I'm morally certain that Miss Holladay is quite innocent. So, I believe, is the district attorney." "But how about the note, Mr. Lester? What did it contain?" "Oh, I can't tell you that, you know. It's none of my business."
"Very well, then; have two meals ready in half an hour, Lester," he said, "and a lunch we can bring back with us. I'll go to Miss Holladay now, and then come direct to Rotin's." He hurried away after the coroner, and I walked slowly over to Rotin's to give the necessary orders. I chose a table in a snug corner, picked up a paper, and tried to read.
"Oh, no, sir; she gave me a brooch, as I told you." "I fear I can't promise you anything," said Mr. Royce slowly, after a moment's thought. "Of course, it's none of my business: for Miss Holladay must arrange her household to suit herself; yet, if you don't get back with your old mistress, I may, perhaps, be able to find you a position somewhere else.
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